University of You: Starting Your Own Business in College

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Brandon Bernier is a junior at George Washington University, majoring in computer science. He’s also making financial ends meet as president of Bernier Enterprises, LLC,. How does he run a business while juggling a full-time student schedule? It’s not as hard as you think. Continue Reading

Being Happier At Work: 5 Ways To Get You There Now

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Do you feel satisfied with your job?  If not, you might want to consider talking to your boss about how to make things better.  The following post offers five ways for becoming happier at work. Continue Reading

5 Tips For Finding Your Job Search Mentor

There is no shame in needing some guidance during your career.  If you’re looking for a mentor in your job search, the following post offers some helpful tips.

We’re often faced with many questions during the search for a job. Where do I look? Is my resume up to par? How do I prepare for a phone interview? And the biggest question of all — who do I confide in for help during my search? Having a strong

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8 Reasons Why You’re not Getting Ahead in Your Career

Are you wondering why you are not taking that next step in your career?  Perhaps, you’re hurting your own chances.

You’re a hard worker. You stay late at the office and never complain. You’re your boss’ go to person on big projects, and you never let him down. You’re always taking on extra responsibility even when your plate is spilling over. And yet, your career trajectory is as flat as a board.

Meanwhile, you can’t help but notice the coworkers who put in fewer hours than you but who’ve managed to get themselves promoted over you. Or that friend of yours whose long-shot cupcake bakery idea turned into a huge success. Or the countless wealthy businesspeople featured in the business magazines and blogs you read religiously who seem to have reached even greater success over the past few years despite the down economy. Of course, you’re tired of merely scraping out an existence, but you’ve concluded real success is all about luck, and you just don’t have any.

Wrong! Says Vickie Milazzo. She explains that if you want to achieve her brand of wicked success, it’s all on you. Luck doesn’t have anything to do with it. Continue Reading

Workers Want Direction in their Career Paths

Employees seem to want more guidance on how to take their careers to the next levels.

For workers, “show me the way” can be just as important as “show me the money,” new research from Accountemps suggests. In the survey, more than half (54 percent) of workers interviewed said knowing their career path is very important to their overall job satisfaction. Nearly one-third (31 percent) of respondents feel this feedback is at least somewhat important. Continue Reading

19% of Female Professionals Have Never Had a Mentor

LinkedIn surveyed nearly 1,000 female professionals in the U.S. and found that 19 percent of respondents had never had a mentor. LinkedIn asked the women who hadn’t had a mentor why that was the case. Fifty-two percent of the women noted they hadn’t had a mentor because they had, “never encountered someone appropriate.” As part of the survey, LinkedIn also asked the women who had never been a mentor why they weren’t mentoring another professional, and sixty-seven percent of those respondents said they have never been mentors because, “no one ever asked.” Continue Reading